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Jumping the Hurdles: Cannabis Research and Mental Health

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:00

The bewildering humming sounds resembling jackhammer’s fill the free space between my brain and the inside of the MRI machine.

Lying motionless to such a degree that I focus on my lungs retracting and expanding, ensuring my slight movements will not alter the instruments outcomes.

A million dollar state-of-the-art machine braking down boundaries, allowing the human brain to be observed with the patient unharmed, let alone inebriated on cannabis.

As an advocate for marijuana and its obvious positive panacea applications, I have volunteered for a first of its kind medical research project, joint funded by my current University. The research evolves around schizophrenia and exploring the hippocampus, the memory learning and emotional centre of the brain (located in the medial temporal lope). The MRI machine takes photos of the brain once the volunteer has consumed one of the following: Cannabidiol (CBD) compound, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) compound or...

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